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Me, trying wings two steps spicier than my usual.
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Nov 18, 2020 05:30
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Nov 18, 2020 05:32
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Is he trying to blow up an ant colony or something?
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Nov 18, 2020 05:34
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Noticed the dog on the upper right the second time. Glad doggo is okay. 
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Nov 18, 2020 05:36
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Splode posted:Is he trying to blow up an ant colony or something? Gopher hole
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Nov 18, 2020 05:39
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Platystemon posted:Gopher hole Taking his Caddyshack cosplay too far.
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Nov 18, 2020 05:42
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Splode posted:Is he trying to blow up an ant colony or something? Possibly wasps. Around here a common way of eliminating underground wasp nests is to pour some petrol down the hole. Most people usually use too much and add a step of setting it on fire. You are apparently only meant to use a small amount and let the fumes do the work.
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Nov 18, 2020 05:58
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Azathoth posted:[Senator Collins:] Well, there are … regulations governing the materials they can be made of Somebody forgot to tell the East Germans.
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Nov 18, 2020 07:18
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Varkk posted:Possibly wasps. Around here a common way of eliminating underground wasp nests is to pour some petrol down the hole. Most people usually use too much and add a step of setting it on fire. You are apparently only meant to use a small amount and let the fumes do the work. Yeah we were told to toss gas on a wasp's nest as kids to kill em. So we tried it one time by putting some in a styrofoam cup. We didn't make it to the nest with that.
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Nov 18, 2020 07:22
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Pretty much any ground living varmints and or insects i guess. From what my father tells me; sometimes gopher tunnel systems shoot out flames on the other exits/entrances. Do i believe my dad? I don't know. Did those gophers die horrible gopher deaths? Yes.
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Nov 18, 2020 08:03
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Push El Burrito posted:Yeah we were told to toss gas on a wasp's nest as kids to kill em. So we tried it one time by putting some in a styrofoam cup. We didn't make it to the nest with that. Reminds me of when a chemistry teacher told a story about her husband shaping some styrofoam to use for something and then he spray painted it.
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Nov 18, 2020 08:17
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Note the yellow hose, he's trying to do it with massive amounts of propane/LNG. There's been enough time for it to backfill with oxygen and he was trying to do it by smell. By the time you can smell it from the exit, bad things are going happen from where ever you light it. He could have just closed the exit holes he knows of and everything would have sorted itself out in a day or so. Or just piped his car exhaust into it.
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Nov 18, 2020 08:31
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Brown Moses posted:Forensic Architecture just put together a video reconstruction of the Beirut Port Explosion, which demonstrates how you accidentally build a giant bomb in the middle of a major city by ignoring safety regulations This is from a few pages back and nothing new, but there's a special level of  to the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate being stored in the same warehouse as 23 tons of fireworks and five rolls of detcord.
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Nov 18, 2020 08:37
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:Pretty much any ground living varmints and or insects i guess. From what my father tells me; sometimes gopher tunnel systems shoot out flames on the other exits/entrances. My dad told me a similar story. There's a particularly nasty variety of jumping, biting ant where I grew up, and Dad was doing the petrol trick to kill their nest (and lighting it because it's more fun). When flames shot out of the ground across the yard he discovered they'd had a second entrance going. I believed him because otherwise we'd never have found that second entrance. He swapped to not lighting it after that but in the end they always come back
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Nov 18, 2020 10:10
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I had a truck literally drive past my location with roughly a few million $ of my company's widgets and continue 1000km north before realising and telling us. I mean, you are a B-Double with a completely full second trailer of my stuff specifically...
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Nov 18, 2020 10:11
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Splode posted:My dad told me a similar story. "What the- Fire Ants? NO! How did I get fire ants!?"
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Nov 18, 2020 10:15
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I know I'm pages late but i just wanted to say thank you for the educational go through vis a vis skin and hot metal. Best thread.
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Nov 18, 2020 14:13
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Perfect!
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Nov 18, 2020 15:03
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Sagebrush posted:Paramotors in fact are not regulated by the FAA, except inasmuch as you can't fly them in controlled airspace and so on. Neither you nor the equipment needs any sort of license or certification. Just strap it on and go nuts. Right, but we fall under FAA... descriptions, I suppose? Not "regulated by," you're right... we're "self-regulating," which is why it's doubly painful to have someone like Dell and others do stupid things and potentially invite more scrutiny of the hobby from the feds.
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Nov 18, 2020 15:54
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Sagebrush posted:Paramotors in fact are not regulated by the FAA, except inasmuch as you can't fly them in controlled airspace and so on. Neither you nor the equipment needs any sort of license or certification. Just strap it on and go nuts. Don't listen to this narc, blot out the sun with your gliders
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Nov 18, 2020 17:14
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Grabbed this from the schadenfreude thread https://i.imgur.com/upujyxa.mp4 Reminds me of setting up ropes and signs to keep people out of active radiation zones and constantly having to yell at people ducking under the ropes after stopping to read the signs
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Nov 18, 2020 17:35
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Reminds me of setting up ropes and signs to keep people out of active radiation zones and constantly having to yell at people ducking under the ropes after stopping to read the signs I have heard stories of guys walking through three posted radiation/contamination postings before being stopped by someone who is not walking through life in a haze of dumb. Why do they do that??? Edit: there's an old wife's tale about a really old plant I visited that, back in the day, they supposedly hired illiterate people to do housekeeping work with the idea that if they can't read the signs but knew not to cross boundaries they'd be too worried about what the sign might be warning about to ever cross the boundary. Never was able to confirm the story but it stuck with me.
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Nov 18, 2020 18:12
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Blindeye posted:I have heard stories of guys walking through three posted radiation/contamination postings before being stopped by someone who is not walking through life in a haze of dumb. "It says we're supposed to stay out. That means there must be something really cool here. I want to see what it is!"
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Nov 18, 2020 18:14
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From my experience, 99% of the time it's because they don't want to have to go around the blocked area, so mainly laziness. Probably not helped by the fact that our brains unconsciously go "well I don't SEE any danger, should be fine"
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Nov 18, 2020 18:15
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everyone finds it hard to take seriously the risks they don't understand. some people understand less than others. e: also i think people slip up connecting abstract or statistical knowledge to their personal concrete situation. like, they know the information that radiation can kill people, but they don't see how that effects them. they'll be fine! they're always careful! or they know society is racist, but they don't see how their actions contribute to that. Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Nov 18, 2020 |
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Nov 18, 2020 18:19
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Everywhere I worked crossing red tape was 0 tolerance fired, and yellow magenta rad tape is 0 tolerance fired out of a cannon. Yellow tape was technically chaos reigns, if you read the sign and thought it doesn't apply to you go wild 
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Nov 18, 2020 18:28
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Liberated from Facebook, was a coinflip for the OSHA or Schadenfreude thread - Don't view while eating Similar but a little more pressure  Gordon Freemanning it up with your crowbar 
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Nov 18, 2020 18:41
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Blindeye posted:I have heard stories of guys walking through three posted radiation/contamination postings before being stopped by someone who is not walking through life in a haze of dumb. In the states that’s markedly easy, I think 10-13% of the country is classified as “functionally illiterate”. Eg, they will be able to read a sign that says “shop” or “gas” but nothing more complicated.
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Nov 18, 2020 18:47
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Drone_Fragger posted:In the states that’s markedly easy, I think 10-13% of the country is classified as “functionally illiterate”. Eg, they will be able to read a sign that says “shop” or “gas” but nothing more complicated. Pretty easy to get that way with no child left behind and schools doing creative workarounds to shove kids through the system. I once worked at a grocery store with a guy who stopped paying attention in second grade but his school kept passing him along to the next grade until they eventually got rid of him. The end result was that he could barely read. We'd be out pushing carts and I'd see a funny bumper sticker, laugh, and move on. He would sit there staring at it for several seconds until he finally figured it out. He told some of us that he once stared at a newspaper comic stuck to the break room refrigerator for several minutes until someone told him what it meant. He wasn't stupid or slow or anything, he just never learned how to read. Thinking back, it's kind of impressive that he was able to gain so much knowledge of things he was interested in without being able to look anything up about them.
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Nov 18, 2020 18:59
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Similar but a little more pressure Evil dead remake looking lovely
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Nov 18, 2020 19:05
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Cojawfee posted:Pretty easy to get that way with no child left behind and schools doing creative workarounds to shove kids through the system. I once worked at a grocery store with a guy who stopped paying attention in second grade but his school kept passing him along to the next grade until they eventually got rid of him. The end result was that he could barely read. We'd be out pushing carts and I'd see a funny bumper sticker, laugh, and move on. He would sit there staring at it for several seconds until he finally figured it out. He told some of us that he once stared at a newspaper comic stuck to the break room refrigerator for several minutes until someone told him what it meant. He wasn't stupid or slow or anything, he just never learned how to read. Thinking back, it's kind of impressive that he was able to gain so much knowledge of things he was interested in without being able to look anything up about them. This guy got a degree and became a teacher even though he was illiterate.
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Nov 18, 2020 19:30
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Cojawfee posted:Pretty easy to get that way with no child left behind and schools doing creative workarounds to shove kids through the system. I once worked at a grocery store with a guy who stopped paying attention in second grade but his school kept passing him along to the next grade until they eventually got rid of him. The end result was that he could barely read. We'd be out pushing carts and I'd see a funny bumper sticker, laugh, and move on. He would sit there staring at it for several seconds until he finally figured it out. He told some of us that he once stared at a newspaper comic stuck to the break room refrigerator for several minutes until someone told him what it meant. He wasn't stupid or slow or anything, he just never learned how to read. Thinking back, it's kind of impressive that he was able to gain so much knowledge of things he was interested in without being able to look anything up about them. I've come across this a lot. People who can read an email but cannot read technical instructions to save their lives, sometimes literally.
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Nov 18, 2020 19:32
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Cojawfee posted:Pretty easy to get that way with no child left behind and schools doing creative workarounds to shove kids through the system. I once worked at a grocery store with a guy who stopped paying attention in second grade but his school kept passing him along to the next grade until they eventually got rid of him. The end result was that he could barely read. We'd be out pushing carts and I'd see a funny bumper sticker, laugh, and move on. He would sit there staring at it for several seconds until he finally figured it out. He told some of us that he once stared at a newspaper comic stuck to the break room refrigerator for several minutes until someone told him what it meant. He wasn't stupid or slow or anything, he just never learned how to read. Thinking back, it's kind of impressive that he was able to gain so much knowledge of things he was interested in without being able to look anything up about them. it's not entirely a question of poor education, there's a lot of people who simply can't process written words. hell some of them are mods i knew a guy who could build out large air conditioners like a boss, intricate welding and pipe bending, but whenever he got any kind of paperwork he'd have to take it to HR to have someone walk him through it word by word
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Nov 18, 2020 19:33
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Someone once told me that the reason that Imperial measurements are fractional instead of decimal is that it's much easier for illiterate people to work with fractions, even if decimals are more precise. Not sure if it's true, but it sure makes a lot of sense. Also an interesting reminder regardless, that for nearly all of human history, most everything was built by people who couldn't read or likely even do anything but the most basic of math.
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Nov 18, 2020 19:38
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Azathoth posted:Someone once told me that the reason that Imperial measurements are fractional instead of decimal is that it's much easier for illiterate people to work with fractions, even if decimals are more precise. Not sure if it's true, but it sure makes a lot of sense. It's because 12 has factors of 2, 3, 4 and 6. It's much easier to split things in 1/2 and 1/3 etc when your measurement system defines them with many base factors. Yes, decimal is more precise, but precision on that level didn't exist that much in the open air market stall in 1100 AD or whatever.
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Nov 18, 2020 19:44
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Azathoth posted:Someone once told me that the reason that Imperial measurements are fractional instead of decimal is that it's much easier for illiterate people to work with fractions, even if decimals are more precise. Not sure if it's true, but it sure makes a lot of sense. You can get very close (certainly to within whatever tolerance you need for wood or stone working) to any arbitrary fractional measurement with nothing more than a single object of known dimension and a simple set of dividers. Decimal is a hell of a lot easier to work with now, but fractional makes a ton of sense in a pre-industrial, pre-precision-tools world.
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Nov 18, 2020 19:49
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DelphiAegis posted:It's because 12 has factors of 2, 3, 4 and 6. It's much easier to split things in 1/2 and 1/3 etc when your measurement system defines them with many base factors. Counterpoint: 1/2 is exactly as precise as 0.5, 1/4 is exactly as precise as 0.25, 1/3 is infinitely more precise than 0.33333333333 The instrument is the limit, not the numbering system, and precision was not the point Azathoth was making, but rather that different parts of your brain are used when thinking and referring to fractional quantities and math operations than with decimal.
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Nov 18, 2020 19:57
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MrYenko posted:but fractional makes a ton of sense in a pre-industrial, pre-precision-tools world. So you're saying that when climate change drives us back to the stone age, America will be ahead of the game? Nice
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Yes but if you measure things in 12s, it's much easier to say "you three of you get 4 things each" than it is if you measure by 10s and having to say "you three get three things and a tiny bit more, each" is my point. This is also the reason behind the sumerian calendar being based heavily in 6, 12 and 60, because it has many factors which make it easier to fractionally divide.
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